
Joel McCrea
Acting
1905-11-05 · South Pasadena, California, USA
Joel Albert McCrea (November 5, 1905 – October 20, 1990) was an American actor whose career spanned a wide variety of genres over almost five decades, including comedy, drama, romance, thrillers, adventures, and Westerns, for which he became best known. He appeared in over one hundred films, starring in over eighty, among them Alfred Hitchcock's espionage thriller Foreign Correspondent (1940), Preston Sturges' comedy classics Sullivan's Travels (1941), and The Palm Beach Story (1942), the romance film Bird of Paradise (1932), the adventure classic The Most Dangerous Game (1932), Gregory La Cava's bawdy comedy Bed of Roses (1933), George Stevens' romantic comedy The More the Merrier (1943), William Wyler's These Three, Come and Get It (both 1936) and Dead End (1937), Howard Hawks' Barbary Coast (1935), and a number of western films, including Wichita (1955) as Wyatt Earp and Sam Peckinpah's Ride the High Country (1962), opposite Randolph Scott. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joel McCrea, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
movieThou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
as John Neville Jr. (archive footage) · 2008 · 6.1
movieSam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
as Self (archive footage) · 2004 · 8.0
movieBarbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
as Self (archive footage) · 1997 · 7.7
movieGeorge Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
as Self · 1985 · 5.8
movieNight of 100 Stars
as Self · 1982 · 6.8
movieMustang Country
as Dan · 1976 · 5.5
movieThe Great American Cowboy
as Narrator · 1973 · 6.6
movieCry Blood Apache
as Pitcalin as an Older Man · 1970 · 2.6
movieSioux Nation
as · 1970 · 7.8
movieThe Young Rounders
as · 1966 · 7.0
tvThe Merv Griffin Show
as Self · 1962 · 6.6
movieRide the High Country
as Steve Judd · 1962 · 7.1
movieThe Crowning Experience
as Prologue Narrator · 1960 · 6.5
tvWichita Town
as Marshal Mike Dunbar · 1959 · 4.9
movieThe Gunfight at Dodge City
as Bat Masterson · 1959 · 5.7
movieFort Massacre
as Vinson · 1958 · 6.2
movieCattle Empire
as John Cord · 1958 · 6.2
movieThe Tall Stranger
as Ned Bannon · 1957 · 6.6
movieGunsight Ridge
as Mike Ryan · 1957 · 6.0
movieTrooper Hook
as Sgt. Clovis Hook · 1957 · 6.8
movieThe Oklahoman
as John · 1957 · 5.8
movieThe First Texan
as Sam Houston · 1956 · 6.7
movieWichita
as Wyatt Earp · 1955 · 6.3
movieStranger on Horseback
as Judge Richard 'Rick' Thorne · 1955 · 5.8